GBWR Women's Team | Women’s Cup 2023

The GBWR women’s team were brilliant in their performance to win the third Women’s Cup, held 9-11 March 2023 in Paris. The team had a perfect tournament winning every match in the lead up to the final.
This is the first time that teams representing their national federations have entered the event, with GB and Canada both having a full squad. The other three teams were made up of female players from all over the world, including France, Australia, the USA, and South Korea.
The opening game of the event was GB vs Canada, which had lots of attention from the Paris media. The GB ladies and Head Coach, Rob Tarr, were expecting a hard game, not really knowing how good the Canadians were. The squad had worked hard in their two training camps so were ready for the challenge. This hard work really paid off as they came out with a 42-21 victory. The team continued this success by soring over 40 points in each of the following three pool games with victory in each match.
The final on Saturday afternoon was against one of the mixed teams, who had also beaten everyone but GB in the pool games. Although GB had beaten this mixed team already, they knew that they had been getting stronger and the final was going to be a much harder game. The first two quarters of the final were close, but GB stayed ahead. They really took control in the second half of the game, coming out winners 44-32.
The GBWR women’s team received their Gold medals from WWR president Richard Allcroft, with one of the mixed teams getting Silver and Canada getting the Bronze medals. Following the games, congratulations were for three of our GB players; Kylie Grimes who was awarded best in class 0.5, Faye West best in class 3.5 and Coral Batey who was awarded MVP for the tournament.
GBWR would like to thank the players for their hard work and commitment, and the coaching staff, Rob Tarr and Cara Lewis, for the support and guidance they provided for the team.
The tournament has really raised the profile of female athletes in wheelchair rugby and GBWR will be launching a programme of women’s activity in the near future. The programme will provide a female only space within the sport and help increase access to wheelchair rugby for female players. This will help drive our goal of getting more female players into the talent programme and ultimately into the GB squad.
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Women’s Cup, Paris 2023
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